The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice.

We should all be eating fruits and vegetables as if our lives depend on it - because they do.

The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.

If [you are] over the age of 10, the question isn't whether or not to eat healthy to prevent heart disease, it's whether or not you want to reverse the heart disease you already have.

Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy.

I ask the internist why there aren't more Ornish-like studies. 'There aren't any financial interests involved.'

You know you're grown up when summer is just a season.

Ounce for ounce, herbs and spices have more antioxidants than any other food group.

Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. As whole foods go, they offer the most nutrition per calorie.

A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.

Eating a varied plant-based diet - and avoiding all meat, fish, chicken and dairy products - may have much to recommend it, but it's certainly not for everyone.

Whatever the hell our souls are made of, they are the same.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

Men like to pleasure us, girl. They like to undo our plaits and give us water to drink from their own mouths. That's what makes the world go round.

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.

There are only two kinds of religion in the world...They all say, "Do, do, do." Only Christianity says, "Done." Christ has done it all.

In every age there are plenty of people around to remind you what you cannot possibly do. Thank goodness, for these naysayers provide a priceless service: They spur...us to achieve great things.

The regular rhythm and upbeat tunes of military music or marching bands positively affect your mood even if you don't actually 'enjoy' listening to it.

I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.

I said, "If I was a Negro girl-" He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. "We can't think of changing our skin," he said. "Change the world-that's how we gotta think."